Scariest take-off and most beautiful flight, hang gliding Lanzarote - Mirador del Rio
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- First time hang gliding at Mirador del Rio. Wind blew straight onto the point (North wind), resulting in Lee turbulence right after take-off, which was unfortunately not apparent on the ground. The most challenging take-off I had so far and by far. Not to be in full control so close to the ground is certainly not a pleasurable experience.
Once above the terrain, the air was stable and we could soar on both sides of the cliff, which should normally not be possible (hence the challenging take-off). The scenery is absolutely breathtaking and I feel blessed to have been able to soar here!
Since I landed just ahead of a fast approaching gust front, resulting turbulence didn't make it easy to keep the glider straight and the higher speed needed to be able to make ground against the strong wind resulted in pilot induced oscillations (not something I usually do). But I did make the small beach at Orzola and was stoked about the nice flight. Enjoy watching
I flew there 25 years ago. Man, it feels like it was another life. Getting old......
Mike Breen do it again!
Hee hee, me too, although for me it was 1976-1981!
@@vistaworx634 '79-95...yeah another life.. why would i stop flying like a bird
I'm turning 25 this month and I feel old!
@@quicktingz2097 Wait till you turn 50 then you feel old wonder what happend to the last 20 years
Did my over 5 hour flight here, back in the early 90's, as part of getting my Delta Bronze. Flew the cliff run from Teguise to Mirador and back at cloud base, 4000 ft as well. Fantastic sites on the island and fantastic memories of my time there. Too old now, about to hit 70. Still as the saying goes, 'retirements great but getting old sucks!'.
Nerves of steel, brother. Lanzarote is a place like no other. I used to wind surf up at Puerto del Carmen back in the '90s. Thanks for sharing.
+Charles Cunningham Once airborne there is not much choice but to focus on what needs to be done to remain airborne. I wouldn't have taken off if I'd have anticipated those lee trubulences (which is why we could soar on both sides of the ridge after, which was fantastic).
I remember when I was about 14 my uncle took me to learn to use a hang glider. Went through all the training even did the little 10 foot hill, then when it came time to take the big leap...I looked over the cliff and said FUCK THAT! That was my hang gliding experience.
I don’t blame you. I would be the same way what fun is it if it’s scary and you have the potential to die
What kind of instructor takes you from a ten foot training hill to first high flight off a cliff?
looks dangerous but awesome, i want to do this
May be we can do it as a community, RUclipsrs.. LoLI have procrastinated on my wish to hang-glide for several years...
Me also bro its dangerous but i want to feel it
Same
@@gauthambabu8432 seems dangerous but a hanglider is such a simple machine very little can go wrong
Thanks for the ride.
What am I doing with my life?
Getting inspiration from others.
Zane S [Coolkiller4] 99 % of people: wow... it would be so cool to do it... and they go back to eating cheesburger...
blebleh999 ahha true!
I flew for over 30 years. It's worth it. (I'm old, fat and slow now, and that's my excuse for hanging it up. Endless memories, though!)
Not dying
I live in La Asomada and we have been watching these guys and gals for the last month. Fantastic, free as a bird, or free bird.
Check out my other video, there is one where we fly from Asomada, a nice site for sure (and just one more on Lanzarote). You live where I want to :)
Your video takes me back to my youth! How did I have the nerve. Brilliant
It's so cool that we have modern technology (cameras and the internet, more specifically RUclips) have allowed us to share experiences like this. Even though I've never hang glided before, this is such a great way to experience it vicariously through somebody else. It's kind of part of the fun without the risk, I guess.
It is cool to see, but watching it on video is nothing like actually experiencing it, it is truly a sense of freedom that nothing can replicate.
Yeah, I know I was kind of being pretentious there. It must be one of those things you have to experience yourself to know what it's really like- similar to many other things. But it's still a cool video
WOW! the views! the scenery is so beautiful,, thanks for posting
Even though I was just an intermediate pilot back in 1985, this was the type of launch we did all the time on about a 600 foot ridge! We always got a minimum lift of 100 ft. plus!. Of course, you had to have a good 20 MPH wind. You went straight up with 1-2 steps maximum. The when the lift topped out, you had to make in immediate 90 degree turn to stay on top of the lift. If you didn't turn, and flew straight out, you lost the lift, and was a short flight! It was so much frigging fun to shoot straight up, with just one step, after the wire man dropped and let go at the same time. The best flight two of had, we had 2 red-tailed hawks flying above in the ridge lift, and then a Golden Eagle way above everyone else! He was the king. It is hard to find launches like this! Thank you for posting. I used to fly a UP Gemini 164. It was so mellow, and fly to fly. Single surface, of course.
I had a similar take-off at Crestline Park in San Bernardino, CA. Winds were cookin' 30+ knots almost due West and I hooked into a thermal right on take-off and went nearly 200' straight up. What a start to an awesome 4.5 hr. flight. I was wiped out once I landed because of fighting the wind as I hooked into the thermals that day. At one point a rigid wing delta flew by and told me I was above 10K'. When he said that, I looked around and damned if I couldn't see down into Lake Arrowhead! It took over an hour just getting back to the landing area. Have never been so stoked! Sky out!
It's really nice that you began with the view of the globe and then enlarged to show where you were. Some of us don't already know where Mirador del Rio is (even which country), so this saves us the trouble of trying to find out.
Breathtaking, completely exhausted just from watching. Thanks for posting!
Great helping mates! I used to have a Zephir.....sweet glider to say the least. I wish I could fly there some day. Blessings to the HG community
Uauuuu! what a powerful lift condition !!! No place to mistakes, it's take-off or return and crash. Very scariest. I hope safe flights and landings to you
That was RADICAL! That kind of turbulence is scary.
The last time I flew with a bowsprit was at Big Hill Springs in 1982. Willi Muller was flying it as a company rep. It looked scary. It still looks scary. We at times were near whited out only a hundred or two feet over launch. A cold north blizzard was making it interesting
what a way to see the world. so raw.
Nice- I was one of the original hang gliders in the early 70s most people did not even know what a hang glider was my hang gliding club was called the fellow feathers.
Just now I saw myself doing hang gliding in my dreams 😀 that's why I'm here 😍
samad ansari Same for me
Yea, looked like a stressful launch. Great location and nice flight !
anyone else come here after the try guys video?
yes theres just was to short
OMG yess!!!
*Who??*
I just fell in love with hang gliding!!!
Joe Stutzman finally someone from the future
Jindgi ka mja to gliding and Rafting me h 😯😊💞💞💞💞💞
Breathtaking views. What an adventure!
I started flying earl hang gliders in 1974 we called flying crisp bags, I flew a ridge rider and a scorpion D before going on to microlights. To fat to fly now lol. Great vid thanks.
That was so cooool!!! Thank you for sharing
BELLISIMO .....GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR UN VUELO TAN INCREIBLE
You handled that with calm authority from what I could tell.
I have had bad take offs in 1974 on hang- gliders and on landings , but I was not in the same league as these guys lol. But I changed to flying mycrolights, that was something else , but wow that was for me:)
Wow! I haven’t seen a bowsprit glider since the ‘80s!
Over 1000000 clicks meanwhile - amazing! I still have an Zephir CX and love to fly with.
Congratulations Bautek Zephir Cx on handling that lee air wave turbulence that obviously is created around el Mirador del Rio. You no doubt would have had to change your underpants later...Once this virus thing is world-wide controlled [2040?] please consider flying over here to Queenstown in New Zealand. There is some of the best hang gliding spots in the world especially up Coronet Peak where some of the greatest thermals in the world can be discovered and you can hang glide for HOURS!
wow. that was really cool. looked like a rush. thank you for posting
Nice Video. I´ve been flying at Mirador back in the mid 90´s and it´s really a thrill to launch there at strong winds. I´m still sad that it wasn´t possible to fly at Famara.
It looks like the glider wasn't handling as well as it should. Some gliders really don't seem to like having a camera mounted forward of the wing, not sure if it's the mass or airflow that wacks them out but a saw another video with similar, though worse, representation of this advers handling. Btw, this sight is now on my list of epic places to fly in the future. Thanks for posting. If I find the other video I'll post it to ya.
Hey John,
I flew the set up on other sides without the turbulence and there was no problem in handling characteristics. It is an older but very stable hang glider and the mistake was made before launching by misjudging the upper winds and resulting Lee.
Very exciting to watch.
This looks like so much fun!
Cool video, thanks! I've been to El Mirador restaurant in Lanzarote (pronounced lon tha RO tay with a slight roll of the 'r'), but didn't see it in your video. When I was there, there were hang gliders flying - really wished I had mine with me, then! I was surprised by the number of people you had helping you launch. Usually, for a high-wind launch, I generally like to have only one person on the up-wind wing. Having multiple launch assistants runs the risk of someone not letting go at the same time, which can throw the glider into an instant turn (which usually results in an immediate crash). Your team was well-trained, though.
There are a couple of other scarier launches I can think of in the U.S. One used to be at Dead Horse Point in Utah. There was enough room for 2 or 3 steps and then, boom, it was a sheer several thousand-foot drop-off. The glider nose would pivot straight down and you'd drop a good 50' before grabbing air, coming up level and flying. Then there's Haleakala on Oahu in Hawaii; a high-wind, sheer drop. They had a platform below the lip of launch that the assist person was hooked onto, so they could hold your front wires with the nose of the glider pointing straight down (because the wind was blowing straight up the cliff). The pilot would give the signal, the assistant would release the wires, and the pilot would jump forward into the wind, and would shoot straight up. Any attempt at a normal launch (running forward from several feet back) would cause the glider nose to hit that vertical wind and flip the glider over backwards.
This one didn't really seem all that bad by comparison, but I'll have to give it a try, sometime. Thanks again!
Oh, shit - sorry. I meant Makapu'u cliffs in Oahu. Haleakala is a big ol' volcano launch on Maui. It's got it's own brand of thrills, too. You used to have to fly with a liquid ball compass (or maybe nowadays, a GPS), because between the high launch and landing on the beach, you'd almost always have to pass through a layer of cloud, and when you go into a cloud, you lose your sense of direction. This is dangerous, because you could end up turning back toward the mountain without knowing and hitting it. Tons o' fun, otherwise!
Very nice, thanks for sharing!
What an absolutely beautiful place to fly. Nice flight and glad it ended well. Seems the hang swing suit could use a little modification;-).
Not sure what went wrong there. The Z5 by wills wing is a nice harness but mine collapsed in the back which made it hard to get my feet in. I guess this was due to the fact that I didn't have the little plate in the back that is there for the feet.
I have observed this happening back as far as when I had a Seagull Seahawk. Why I preferred a simple harness. But back then the added drag was not as noticeable. Nice to see Wills Wing is still in business. The new hang gliders have really improved. I didn't get to fly mine much as my talented instructor was almost killed just after we ordered my glider and the egos and mixed up energy was making the sport at that time unsafe and there was only a hang 1 training hill (with hang 4 conditions of turbulence at times) and a hang 4 launch off the box into real air. But got in thousands of hours flying RC aircraft a very dangerous addiction and later full scale conventional gliders even worse;-)
I am now going outside to fly a 19 gram RC quad that would have had you burned at the stake as a witch if you showed up with it back then as the performance is "impossible";-) Have fun and fly safe. If you feel something is off... just don't fly and wait for a better day. That seems to be the key in hang gliding. Lost a well respected friend that said that often but broke his own rule to set a record before another pilot beat him to it. I flew that day and the air was spooky even for an RC glider setup and trimmed properly.
Well my radio just talked to me reminding me we need get outside... LOL
John F Hendry Are you talking about an actual sense of the wind and other elements of your flight? Or are you talking about something that cannot be qualified that just comes down to intuition and instincts?
Intuition and instinct we acquire and are aware of on a subconscious level due to complex patterns of energy I believe are specific to our own DNA timing in relationship to the environment of time and space we exist in and if paying attention can often be sensed as a result of identifiable past patterns leading up to an event.
I had a friend heavy into martial arts training to "still the computer" and eliminate confusing jitter and noise to increase his concentration and focus who was offered a ride on a motorcycle to go a few blocks and he said he initially declined the offer as it didn't "feel right" but his friend said "come on" so he disregarded his gut instinct and accepted his friend's instead but said the instant he got on the back he felt like jumping off it "for some reason" but didn't and a block later at a stop light a drunk driver ran into them where his friend driving was not hurt but he had his foot completely crushed. He said his foot started to hurt just before they were hit and was looking down at it trying to figure out what was wrong when the car hit them and felt like he was in a dream where he couldn't get off the bike just before impact as if it was inevitable and had happened before.
And I've had similar events of awareness but mostly by looking back at what has already happened am I able to see "why".... which is too late "after the fact" to do anything to change it but the energy pattern lessons are there to observe and this has put me into a pattern of behavior resulting is some rather unusual positive "events" where if I had broken just one rule needed to stay in rhythm it is obvious though cause and effect the entire chain of events would not have happened. And believe me it took some real self control of emotion to not play caveman and use the strong force of the club applied with the same deceit and deception in use rather than open and honestly place a feather being laughed at in place where it became a game of waiting for the effect of a control rotor to take effect and control the machine's direction.
John F Hendry Wow. Thanks for the detailed reply.
Cool! This looks really exiting, I kinda want to try it
Thanks. I hang glide since 4 years now but have more time flying float planes which is a lot similar in the sense that you fly close to the ground and are sensitive to winds and turbulence. My experience in hang gliders is still limited, with about 75 hrrs total time, but I am longing to change that once I get more off time in the summer.
Wow! Very nice video. Such a perfect place for slope or Ds!!!
Well done. Thank you for sharing.
Amazing, thanks for sharing!
*clicks on a hang gliding video.*
"Our story starts...in space..."
Very cool.Keepem coming.I'm nurseing some medical issues.Flew through too many chemtrails here at Slide mountain.
Gr8 Vid.
The cam angle shows the billow shift (wing changing shape) really well as you turn.
I remember flying at Famara cliffs in Lanzerotte. That was a four person take off with an elevator thereafter . Truly the scariest of take offs followed by the most amazing flight:-)
being on a island with no barrier I can see why the wind was unpredictable, but hey you didn't die so its all good. looked awesome
It almost looked like he was actually in the air. Those photo apps can do anything. Kind of reminds me of cassette tapes. How the hell do you learn to hang glide without crashing a few times? Breathtaking. I wish I had some chocolate cream pie.
Great video! Reminds me of all the good times I have had flying at Lookout, except, I didn't have the beautiful ocaen view.
Amazing Bro, congratulations....very good.
So Beautiful! Thanks for posting this .. I have flown only in some US sites,, i would love to fly there..
Thanks! For me it is the inverse, I have been flying in Europe and Lanzarote these past five years but have moved to Canada recently. Still looking forward to explore the US with all its marvelous flying sites. Maybe see you there sometimes!
Looks so fun imma try this when I'm older
Awesome vid dude. Loved it👍🙂
Superb eye! The glider has fins made of sail material on both wingtips (on top of the wing). Unfortunately they don't hold very well and flap around shortly after take-off (they are attached by a string on the front). I would have removed them altogether but it's not my glider.
That was so cool of a take off very challenging I love the rush :) The trick there is to relax and keep the nose down, keep it balanced and hands on the down-tubes :) I love that rush. You were right in the Vortex of the thermal lol. For me I find that when I run in to killer thermals they hit my wing left or right side I have better control when my hands are on the down tubes. I can man handle it tell it want to do next :) I been hit so hard almost scary as shit almost flipped lol but yeah love that feeling. They dont call me the Buzzard for nothing hahaha a thermal is like a helicopter blade if you find the sweet spot you can say there all day go up and up and away :)
hope to flight
i just made couple of small flight with paragliding only a child(12yrs)
but passion still now(38 yrs) taking me up to try again
passion never dies at any age
gud luck
I am illiterate after reading this
Awesome take off n landing.. Great flight... what were those hand signals you were doing when that other pilot showed up?
How many individual flights had you made (not hours) before you'd say you were properly skilled for such a take off and flight?
Beautiful music who's it from love it a lot and great video thanks
Very windy and turbulent take off. Wind blowing too fast, maybe not the best day to fly. Awesome anyway.
Looks good fun mate, nice video!
Awesome video.
That was one rowdy ride after the launch. After that, pure skyout.
that looks so amazing
Applaud your courage !
Totally agree! Would I have anticipated anything like that I probably would have. It just feels better to have the legs inside the harness and results in better control, which is why I tried to get them in there right after launch. Flying away from the ridge would have been the safer option given the turbulent air currents aloft.
Hey Hugo, yeah absolutely right! I got this one just from a friend so I didn't have to pack my own short and put it on a plane - the angle surely is nice :)
I would buy a glider like that just to put the camera in front of me too! Perfect! :-)
thanks for sharing your great video
Well done! 😊👍
I would have been so happy to be back down on the ground that I would have got down and kissed it 😂 But great video through 👍
The zipper to open the lower part of the harness to be able to get your legs out once you are on short final. The harnesses are a bit like sleeping bags with two zippers, one for closing and the other for opening.
Nice hang gliding skills
This dude is living the meaning of life.
Adventure beautiful
Nice flight...
awesome flyin dude
I didn't like the base bar launch, but was completely baffled by the base bar landing. Surely you were taught to be upright and ready to flare?
Congratulations. Fantastic video. Can we know share in Conocer Lanzarote in Facebook? So that more people see.
it's a wonderful feeling
Great bit of flying. You not to be in control?. I think you had control all the time if you think not, do not fly again. I love the crosstubeless glider I have flown a few the best one was the Sigma. Now most people would say when you fly one you take your life in your own hands. but mind you there were not many made and not many people flew them they were a great glider, as your looks to be also. Thanks for showing video it even had me on the edge of my seat and I love turbulance. Cheers Pete
bonjour c'est super de voir des vidéos comme ça j'aime bien le hang gliding et ce que je peux savoir combien ca coûte en espagne un hang gliding de bonne occasion ?
merci
damn this was the best thing to watch when high
yup! I agree
I can confirm
Ray Hoodoo im watching this high now
Great flight, man!
I love this , the music is cool too x
Epic takeoff
Why is Lanzarote so rocky on such a smooth surface. Did mountains explode there billions of years ago? I'd love to fly there but would need some serious knee protection and more....... Peace
Imagine flying into a flock of birds
Stunning. What's the first music track please?
I loved it!
Huge balls.
wow, Pretty Strong conditions for Hang gliding
What is that 2nd tune? It's awesome!
Tres Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!